Authentic Teaching!
I would like first to clarify what authentic teaching is NOT from my perspective.
- Authentic teaching is not synonymous with authentic learning. The latter is well part of the instructional practices of authentic teachers but is not as encompassing as authentic teaching since it only “refers to a wide variety of educational and instructional techniques focused on connecting what students are taught in school to real-world issues, problems, and applications.(“Authentic Learning,”n.d).
- Authentic teaching is neither synonymous with the notion of teachers’ authenticity denoting personal traits of teachers. Authentic teaching is far beyond the teacher as a person. Surely, authentic teachers share some critical personal traits but this is only one facet to authentic teaching.
- Authentic teaching to me refers to a set of beliefs, attitudes and actions that characterizes authentic teachers in their quest of helping students to come to know. Sergiovanni and Starratt (2002) defines an educational platform as “ a floor of beliefs, opinions, values, and attitudes that provides a foundation for practice” (p.70). The main aspects of the authentic teacher’s educational platform can be represented as follows :
I will detail my definition of the authentic teacher in the coming posts.
Abderrazak Behhar – August 21, 2021.
References:
Authentic learning definition. The Glossary of Education Reform. (2013, September 16). https://www.edglossary.org/authentic-learning/.
De Bruyckere, P., & Kirschner, P. A. (2016). Authentic teachers: Student criteria perceiving authenticity of teachers. Cogent Education, 3(1), 1247609. https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186x.2016.1247609
Sergiovanni, T. J., & Starratt, R. J. (2002). Supervision: A redefinition (7th ed.). McGraw-Hill.
Abderrazak Behhar 